id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt 6812 Hay, John Abraham Lincoln: a History — Volume 01 .txt text/plain 126638 5742 65 In the year 1780, Abraham Lincoln, a member of a respectable and wellto-do family in Rockingham County, Virginia, started westward to This John Lincoln left New Jersey some years later, and about 1750 mother's life-time, and to have taken her stepmother's name after Mr. Lincoln's second marriage.] to the only schools that existed in their [Footnote: The Democrats of New Salem worked for Lincoln out of their Lincoln for the first time on the day when he came up to Springfield living problem in the State, and Mr. Lincoln naturally took liberal On the 3rd of March, the day before the Legislature adjourned, Mr. Lincoln caused to be entered upon its records a paper which excited strong antislavery man, had been elected by a division of the proslavery party, but came in with a Legislature largely against him. Lincoln was at this time a candidate for the Whig nomination to along the Missouri border two "free-State" men and one pro-slavery man ./cache/6812.txt ./txt/6812.txt